Old Enough to Forget

I found this one, and snapped it up. Sadly it looked to be in better condition than it actually was ... but I can stream it if I want to hear it without the Rice Krispie Players adding their own textures to the songs. It didn't matter, at least for the first few times that I played it in the basement. Don Ho, you know Mister Tiny Bubbles himself, was someone I knew of, more than I knew of. I always figured he was a one-note joke and I didn't get the punchline. I had no idea what to expect. Somehow, in my mind, I figured he'd be milking his 1967 hit and signature song. "Tiny Snowballs" and the like. "Tiny Bubbles," from what I've read, was originally penned for Lawrence Welk as a tie-in to his champagne music. Mr. Welk passed, and Don Ho received it and scored a touchdown with it. Released in 1967, Don Ho nailed it with his easy listening collection of Christmas standards, "Silver Bells", "The Christmas Song", and a wonderfully sl...